The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIGod is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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